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Catalyst: Low Carb Diet – Fat or Fiction?

Diabetes Australia & the Heart Foundation both declined interviews for Catalyst's look at low carb diets.

2014-11-12_1421Tomorrow night Catalyst has an episode on low carb diets which is likely to attract a lot of interest.

Having watched this one, I think I’m just as confused by the arguments as I was before it.

Interestingly Diabetes Australia and the Heart Foundation both declined interviews, and sent statements instead.

Catalyst investigates the science behind the low carb diet. What are the health benefits and are there any risks? Is it suitable for everyone?

Australian cricketer Shane Watson talks about how cutting carbs has helped him overcome his long-term struggle with weight.

Recent research suggests it could improve the lives of people suffering from obesity and diabetes. We ask the international advocates, sports scientists and Australia’s leading nutritionists – is it just another fad or is there more to cutting the carbs?

8pm Thursday ABC.

4 Responses

  1. @alijoy
    Actually the genetics, epigenetics and gut flora you inherit and the type of calories you eat have a large effect on weight by effecting appetite, efficiency of digestion, metabolism and fat storage.

    So people of the same size eating the same number of calories and doing the same amount of exercise can very have large variations in weight.

    Living organisms are extremely complex systems that don’t behave like in simplistic linear models.

    The Diabetes and Heart Foundations are keeping quite because the conventional position they expound has little scientific basis (largely because the research to prove it is tricky to do and just hasn’t been done).

  2. Really there is only a small amount of the population that need special diets..
    Losing or maintaining weight really isn’t brain surgery… Eat more fruit and vege, eat less junk and exercise most days.
    It’s simple as balancing calories in and calories out.

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